WOMEN, MEDICAL EDUCATION OF. The medical education of women is recent. Facilities are now offered to women for the study of medicine in the United States, England, and the continent of Europe. Diplomas have been granted to women by the faculty of Paris, where the range of study is extensive and arduous. The German uni versities are not so favorable to the pursuit of medical studies by women, but the Ger man cities are visited by them for private instruction. The university of Zurich in Switzerland is attended most by women, where a number always are in attendance upon full courses of lectures and instruction. There is an independent medical school for women in London, which was established principally in consequence of the exertions of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell of New York. More encouragement, however, has been given to the medical education of women in the United States, and there are now numerous in stitutions which afford ample opportunities. In the commencement of the movement, the teaching was done by irresponsible and irregular persons, so that for a time there was necessarily a considerable want of confidence among intelligent people in female doctors, but recently much of this has been corrected, and many institutions pursue a thorough course. The women's medical college of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia has
been in existence over thirty years, and has an efficient faculty composed of both men and women of good professional standing and attainments. The New York infirmary for women and children, is about a quarter of a century old. It was founded by Drs. Emily and Elizabeth Blackwell. From the first this institution was conducted by women During the past fifteen years, it has maintained an associate medical college, with a full faculty of regular professors and teachers. The New England woman's hospital of Bos ton is iu good standing, and the medical department of the university of Michigan at Ann Arbor admits both sexes. Other institutions for the medical education of women are the women's hospital medical college of Chicago, III., and the university of Wooster, at Cleveland, Ohio.